Documentation

How mOhiOm works

A guide to turning a written story into a finished comic — from the first paste of text to a published, shareable link.

Getting started

Create a free account, then head to your Studio dashboard — that's home base for every project. From there you can start a new comic, resume a saved draft, or import a project you exported earlier as JSON.

Every comic goes through the same 6-step pipeline: Story Setup → Character Design → Panel Script → Image Generation → Dialogue → Export & Publish. You can leave and come back to any project at any point — just click Save to Cloud before you go.

1. Story Setup

Paste or write your story text, then set a project ID and describe the visual style you want (e.g. “Japanese manga style, detailed, black and white”). You can also add special requests — constraints like “no gore, soft lighting” — that apply to every later step.

AI analyzes the story to estimate characters, scene beats, and panel count before you continue.

2. Character Design

AI generates a design sheet and reference image candidates for each character in your story. Rate, regenerate, or approve each one — the approved reference image is what keeps that character looking consistent across every panel they appear in later.

3. Panel Script

Your story is broken into pages and panels, each with a shot type, dialogue/SFX, and an image prompt. Switch between Script, Prompts, Dialogue, or a Compact view, and edit anything before generating images — this becomes the blueprint the next step follows.

4. Image Generation & Dialogue

Pick a layout template (or let AI suggest one) and generate every panel as an image. Once panels have images, switch to the Dialogue tab to place speech and thought bubbles — drag a bubble type onto a panel, or use Auto-import to pull dialogue straight from your panel script.

5. Export & Publish

Download your finished comic as a PDF, print-ready PDF, an image ZIP, or an EPUB. Use Save to Cloud to keep the project itself (not just the exported file) so you can reopen and keep editing later.

Publishing gives your comic a shareable web-reader link and can optionally list it in the public Gallery.

Character Manager

Every character you've designed is saved to your library, independent of any single project — reuse a character across multiple comics, or preview and manage them all in one place from the sidebar.

Settings — bring your own API key

By default, text and image generation run on mOhiOm's built-in models. In Settings, you can switch either one to your own API key (Gemini or OpenAI) if you'd rather use your own provider account and quota.

Getting help

Every page has a guide bot in the bottom-right corner — click it for page-specific tips, or ask it to “show me around” for a quick walkthrough of what's on screen.